Sunday, June 1, 2008

A Menu, A Blogging Event, and News!

Please welcome my newest cousin Gracie! She was born last week! Isn't she beautiful!

You probably noticed I've been posting less frequently as of late.

Life gets busy and sometimes priorities must be rearranged.

I've also felt the need to only post recipes that truly work well. You see, I want you to have success in your gluten free kitchen, especially when you do me the honor of trying one of my recipes. It's a sincere compliment for you to take the time to print out a recipe and make something that I have shared.

I feel at times I've been in a hurry and I've shared recipes that actually needed a bit more tweaking before being posted. So, I hope you will bear with me as I try to simply post what I feel are my best recipes. Meanwhile, If you have a recipe to share with me (and I'm always seeking out new ideas) please feel free to email me at gingerlemon_girl at yahoo dot com.

I have several things to share with you today. First being the menu for this week. With our crazy work schedules, we are eating simple, VERY frugal, usually one pot meals or salads. Here is what we will probably be eating this week:

The actual ingredient of the week is cabbage, and hopefully soon, I'll be posting my new favorite coleslaw recipe! But this week we won't be eating cabbage and I'll be serving asparagus for my mom-in-law!

I LOVE one pot meals! The easier and simpler the better! These meals are great for my husband and I because it means less clean up, quicker meals, and often enough food for several meals.

Please post about your favorite one pot, kid friendly meal by June 21st and send me an email at gingerlemon_girl at yahoo dot com. Please include a permalink to your post, a picture of your meal, and tell me a little about your recipe! I will post a roundup on Monday June 30th!

Just to give you a few ideas, here are several of my favorite one pot meals:

This Month's AWESOME Gluten Free Grill will be posted very soon!Please stay tuned!

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Gracie on her way home for the first time!

My ship must have come in! I have NEVER won in a contest or drawing before (EVER) but I was informed today that I won TWO!

Many thanks to Rachel at Wheat Free Meat Free! I won her monthly cookbook giveaway for June! She will be sending me a copy of the book below and I cannot WAIT to receive it! Thank you so much Rachel!

Many thanks to Cheryl at Gluten Free Goodness! I won her recent contest for a recipe containing gluten free oats! She's sending me some wonderful gluten free chocolate and you better believe I'll be eagerly awaiting my mail for that! Thanks so much Cheryl!!

13 comments:

Congrats on your big wins! I've made another batch of your apple oatmeal bars, this time with a few blueberries thrown in. I left out the baking soda (because I seem to react to it) in the second batch, and that worked okay. I'm glad to have a tasty snack to grab when I take a break from gardening. I'm so happy to be feeling good this summer, that I'm putting in really long days.

Kay - Thanks gal!! I enjoy those bars too! I guess I should actually post about them on the blog so everyone else can enjoy them as well! ;-) I'm glad you were able to leave the baking soda out successfully!!

Hi Sarah!Quiche is one of those wonderful dishes that I normally just "wing", or just make with whatever ingredients I have on hand. I made a gluten free pie crust from Bette Hagman (look in my recipe archive under the bakery section for the post) and for the actual quiche I used 3 eggs, about 1/3 cup condensed milk, about 8 oz. of defrosted, drained spinach, 3 slices of swiss cheese --cut into squares, salt pepper, and added some turkey lunch meat to this one since I didn't have any sausage or bacon. I mixed all those ingredients up and pour them into the slightly baked pie crust. Then I thinly sliced grape tomatoes and placed them on top for color. I baked the quiche for about 45 minutes on 350 degrees. Yum!! Enjoy!

Gosh Carrie, I the same way with my posting lately. It seems like I've been inside all winter and now that it's warm the yard is calling. And May is so busy with graduations and holidays.

Your new cousin is just beautiful. And if you didn't know this already, I make two of your one pot dinners on a regular basis. I love Nan's skillet dinner and I also tried the cheese chicken pasta. My son loves that one. I love dinners I can put in one pot and call it good!

What a cutie! Congrats on your new cousin (I think my nephews came home from the hospital in those same adorable little hats), and on your double win! (I felt the same way when I won your giveaway! :) We just had quiche here last week- I'm partial to using mashed potatoes for a crust, I like it much better than the bread-like crust. We fill it with cheese, tomatoes, and broccoli and pour a blend of eggs and milk over it. It's super easy and delicious. Oh, and the dog never complains when we give her the extra mashed potatoes.